Yard Act by Jamie MacMillan
Yard Act are previewing it with the lead single ‘Dream Job’.
Yard Act have confirmed their second album Where’s My Utopia? will be released on March 1st next year.
The announcement has come with news of a gig at Leeds’ Millennium Square on August 3rd, 2024, the album a production collaboration with Gorillaz member Remi Kabaka Jr.
“Dream Job feels like an apt introduction to the themes explored on Where’s My Utopia? – though not all encompassing,” James Smith has said.
“In part I was scrutinising and mocking myself for being a moaning ungrateful little brat, whilst also trying to address how the music industry is this rather uncontrollable beast that hurtles forward unthinkingly and every single person involved in it plays their part. Myself included, obviously.”
As with pretty much everything else going through my head last year, trying to find the right time to articulate the complexity of emotions I was feeling and the severity to which I was feeling them couldn’t be found – or accommodated, so instead I tried to capture it in a pop song that lasts less than three minutes once the fog had cleared a bit. It’s good and bad. I’m still glad that everything that happened to me happened.
Where’s My Utopia? tracklist:
An Illusion
We Make Hits
Down By The Stream
The Undertow
Dream Job
Fizzy Fish
Petroleum
When The Laughter Stops (ft. Katy J Pearson)
Grifter’s Grief
Blackpool Illuminations
A Vineyard for the North
